In the interest of being fair, let us assume that the dog did not crap in the old man's yard. Does the old man have a right to stop people from
walking through his yard? I would say that as a landowner that is his right.

Yeah he has the right, its just a shame he felt the need to exercise that right and more so a shame that he didnt try and be polite about it first
like the kid said.

The old dude would have been very clear if the kid had done anything wrong, he didnt other than walking on some grass he says is his. If thats the
issue and based on that everyone thinks the kid was wrong *sigh*

Only in America folks, only in America

Yall needa start acting like human beings and realise its not really that big a deal if a guy walks his dog through your unfenced backing out onto a
lake backyard. and if your that concerned that people could do it put up a marker then young "punks" have no excuse.

Im not gonna change your mind and your definately not gonna change mine so maybe we just leave it there

The old man was right the kid is a punk,with some false sense of entitlement,sad to hear anyone would side with this disrespectful kid,he obviously
had no respec for anyone,I'm sure it stems from the way he was brought up,sounds like a future criminal if indeed he isn't one already,I see no
racist behavior,seems some posters are using that term because society has a skewed view of the term

I think the whole issue started with the old man. It sounded as though he didn't give the kid an opportunity to be a decent neighbor. What the kid
said is "were you the guy who flipped me off the other day?" To me this sounds as though the old guy didn't bother to have a conversation with the
kid asking him to not walk the dog on his property in a respectful manner.

Maybe he did and this is a continuation of something that is on going and we only saw what the kid wanted us to see. But if the old guy didn't ask
him politely, like he would have any other neighbor/person, than he is at fault and started the confrontation.

I think the girl was video taping from her cell phone, and the kid said they were at the pond first and the old man walked up, which the old man
agreed was the case. So, I don't get the feeling it was a set up other than maybe a few minutes prior when they saw him comming.

In any case, this is something that could have been handled with better communication and some common decency on both sides

I thought that I would never watch that video again, but I had to, to prove to myself that I had not done a dis-service to the young man. I am still
sure that the instigators were the youngsters, they were filming it from the start, he went over to their side of the pond, but who can say whether
his motive was to cuss them, or to check out that they were not harrasing the other old guy fishing. Most of the goading comes from the lad and the
other children, who start joining in and making fun of him at one point. They were clearly there to wind up the old guy and to get some tasty footage
as well, if possible.

A great deal of youngsters talk street punk nowadays, and big up themselves in the process, I have heard them even saying " if he disrespects me or
my homies, I will kill him ", that from a young white kid. Youngsters think that they own the world and can take whatever they want, when they want
it. The old guy is from a whole different time, he has lived his life, to get where he is today, he is only asking to be left in peace on his own
property. The youngster says it is a free country and he can go where he likes, well he is wrong, let him break the law in front of the police, and
then let him say he lives in a free country, where he can do what he likes.

One day the youngster will come up against someone who won't take his cr"p, and he may well find himself assaulted or even shot.

I was raised to respect others property and recognize property rights of the owner. Many arent. Then again Im damned near 50 and my parents actually
raised me unlike most kids of every color these days.

At my home, I have raised gardens and I permascape. As in : I like my damned yard clean. I have 4 dogs in my fenced back yard and the rest I dont plan
on stepping or letting my kids play in other folks dog crap. Year before last I had this dingaling lady down the street let her dog walk up 25 feet
into my yard and crap in front of my steps that lead to my front porch. I was in my front garden.. so I said " hey.. pick up your dogs crap.. and
dont let it walk in my yard that far and crap anymore".. .well she got snotty.. grown woman. Im not white ( Im reddish brown) and she was white. IM
the one that got called a "sand'n-word'" and told to go home. Im actually indian/native american and I didnt even get mad... it was pretty funny
actually.. erm.. I AM home!! LMAO!! Needless to say her dog crap was returned to her ( I have great aim) and I think I weirded her out laughing like a
lunatic as she has never walked her dog near my house as far as Ive seen again. Gardening gloves were given to us by superior beings.. you can pick up
doodoo and never get your hands dirty.

In any case, its not always racism.. mainly its just a word used to "get the goat" of another person.
Stop hollering racism about everything.. half of you have never experienced it, couldnt identify it if it was in neon, and are just parroting the same
tired old rhetoric to seem enlightened or PC.

Was I uncivilized by returning her dogs waste to her? Maybe. But I can tell you this, Id never let my dogs poop on someones property 25 feet in.. not
even 2 feet in. SOmetimes you have to stoop to the real savages level to communicate the point as its the only language they understand.

I really dont care if you call me racist or not, and Im certianly not welcome with the white nationalist or stormfront crowd.. they wanna genocide me
as well.

However, among the black youth in my area.. they really arent taught to respect others or their property. Maybe its demographics. who
knows, who cares. The man has every right to tell them to stay the hell off of his property and not deal with them. If he used the word "black"...
who the hell cares?! I swear, blacks act like mind controlled subjects with the trigger word being "black" or "n-word". I can tell you Ive been
called a LOT of things.. and not once have I allowed it to turn me into a lunatic, change my behavior, or pull the race card. Have any of you whites
beat the hell out of someone and/or went nutty and cried racism over being called a cracker/ghost/pinkie/etc? My husband is white and I can tell you
he never has. My kids are half white and the one is more like me as far as coloring.. she has been called everything from a sand'n-word', spic, and on
and on. Its not racism.. its ignorance. Its a way to get your goat by the first visual cue a person has concerning you.. your color.

Old mans gotta point, that is his property and has every right to tell people to stay off of it. I would be irritated also if some # head was
constantly questioning me about walking through my property when I had to keep telling him to stay off my property.

His problem isnt the crap its the fact there walking through, are people in America so greedy, selfish, possesive and small minded that they cant let
people walk through their unfenced on a lake backyard??

Damn if this was in Oz or most places in the world people would wave at you and say hi.

Its more this sort of stuff than your politics that make most this world thank god were not an American.

Yes. I've run into many many people in the US who don't want ANYONE on their grass period. Hell, they don't even walk on it themselves.

That old guy had a perfectly good reason for being pissed. If the kid wants to walk his dog then he can do it on his own property. That was just an
ignorant punk with no respect for anyone else or their property. Personally I think the old guy should have left out the the "typical black punk"
part because it just makes him looks like an angry old racist guy.

WTF is with this title.I have run into many rude old guys who have no respect for anyone other than themselves and had a hate on for young people but
this young guy was being a punk. Honestly, he obviously was trying to provoke him with the camera and if it was his property I'd of physically
removed him from it. This isn't a white vs black issue. It doesn't matter what colour the young guy was, he was the one disrespecting and just
trying to get a rise out of the old guy. Must not of had anything better to do. If he disagreed about walking the dog and the boundary he could of
debated it intelligently, instead of just being a punk. Honestly saying something like, "yea imma bring my pitbull." Calling him a prick and
everything started this whole thing. now the old guy was the one who got physical first. If it is his backyard he is in the right. If it wasn't his
backyard than he shouldn't of pushed the young guy, and if it wasn't his backyard he got the push back he deserved.

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